Poetry, Imagination, Transcendence: Lisa Dordal

Poet and teacher Lisa Dordal joins us to talk about memory, the imagination, clearing up misconceptions about poetry, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Leon Kowalsi, Nostalgia (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commmons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Claire-Louise Bennett             Pond Joe Brainard                           I Remember Oliver Burkeman                     Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Willa Cather                            Lucy Gayheart Gaius Valerius Catullus          Catullus: The Complete Poetry, transl. Frank. O. Copley Leonard Cohen                       "Anthem" Julio Cortázar                          Hopscotch Simon Critchley                       The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology Simon Critchley                       Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Emily Dickinson           Lisa Dordal                              Mosaic of the Dark Lisa Dordal                              Next Time You Come Home Lisa Dordal                              Water Lessons T. S. Eliot                                  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Vilém Flusser                           Gestures Robert Frost    Ross Gay          David Guterson                        Snow Falling on Cedars Kent Haruf       Václav Havel    Martin Heidegger                     Poetry, Language, Thought John Keats       Claire Keegan  Jack Kerouac                           On the Road Maxine Kumin                          "Woodchucks" Alice McDermott        Julie Otsuka                             When the Emperor Was Divine Per Petterson  Poets & Writers Marcel Proust                           In Search of Lost Time series Patrick Radden Keefe              Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Rumi                                        "A Great Wagon" W. G. Sebald    William Shakespeare  Percy Bysshe Shelley               "Ozymandias" Clint Smith                               Above Ground Clint Smith                               How the Word Is Passed Dorothee Sölle            Elizabeth Strout          Thao Thai                                 Banyan Moon Natasha Trethewy       William Wordsworth  The Writer's Chronicle Antonio Zadra/Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds